Day 44 - Berlin

We got up around 9:30, had some breakie, then at 10:30 headed to the base of the huge TV tower to the Fat Tire office and signed in for the 11am Fat Tire Bike tour. We'd met a few people who highly recommended it to us so we went for it.

We met our guide, Enda, from Northern BC and the rest of the tour group (about 25 people) and we got our bikes and headed off. Our bikes were big beach cruiser style bikes. Mine was big and black with white flowers and a big basket on the front.

The tour was really good. We stopped at a ton of historical places like the place where they had the famous Nazi book burning, the old imperial palace, the Schlossplatz, Checkpoint Charlie, the place where Hitler's bunker was, the new Jewish monument, the Brandenburg Gate, and the Reichstag. So much history in Berlin that its insane. We stopped for lunch in the Tiergarten, this huge park which looked gorgeous with all the leaves changing and falling, near the Brandenburg Gate.

The tour went from 11 till almost 5. Definately good times and a great way to get acquainted with the city and where things are. And riding a bike around was fun as shit.

After the tour we headed back to the hostel and cleaned up and relaxed for abit. I had coffee down in the hostel cafe/bar and met and hung out with this girl, Taylor, from NYC. Quite the 'interesting' girl. Very young, 'free-spirited, and naive. Afterwards, we went to a Hong Kong place around the corner for dinner.

We'd met another Aussie from Melbourne, Andrew, who was travelling on his own and we'd planned on going out to try to find something to do later that night because our hostel bar was always very dead. So we met at 9ish and headed to the Circus Hostel which is one of the 'World Famous' ones and is supposed to be one of the better ones in town so we went to the bar there and hung out. We met an off-the-wall English guy, a couple of Aussie's and another English guy who talked out of the side of his mouth and had the craziest accent; i hardly understood a word he said.

We hung out there drinking beers and shooting the shit for awhile and then me, Rob and Andrew went home, grabbing a dirty Doner along the way.